10 Attitudes of Successful Workers

I've posted recently on how you need to actively manage your career to make it the most productive financial asset it can be. So when I saw this article on the ten attitudes of successful workers, I just had to share it with you. Here's what CareerBuilder lists as ten attitudes to set you apart from the crowd:

1. I am in charge of my destiny.
2. Anything is possible.
3. No task is too small to do well.
4. Everyone is a potential key contact.
5. I was made to do this job... and the one above me.
6. It's not just what I know, but who I know.
7. What else can I do?
8. Failure will help pave the way to my success.
9. I am my own biggest fan.
10. My opportunity monitor is never turned off.

I've worked in business for 18 years at a wide variety of levels and can say that this is truly great advice. Employees that follow the ten items listed above are few and far between and as such, they separate themselves from the pack of workers out there. And when you make yourself more valuable by doing the above, your pay will follow (either with your current company or another company who values the skills you have).

The only two bits of advice I would add is 1) never give up, no matter what set-back you may suffer -- if you keep your head up and keep persevering, you will be successful and 2) have a positive, upbeat attitude -- people like working with and for others who see that the glass is half full.

If you want some more thoughts on how to better manage your career, see these links:

• Jumpstart Your Career
• 5 Steps to Getting that Raise
• Debunking a Few Career Change Myths
• Loving the Job You Hate

Comments

[JT]

hey great stuff in this top 10 list. I also liked the 2 that you added. I sent a track back from http://moremerchant.com/20/10-attitudes-of-successful-workers/ to your post, but either your site is not working or my site is not sending trackbacks correctly.

[Clair Ching]

Everyone is a potential key contact.

This is something that is important especially to freelancers. It is not easy all the time to take note of who the people are especially when you meet so many of them but you never know which one of them will be your next client or will refer you to so many others.

I am my own biggest fan.

Well, again, for freelancers - because no one else will be there to give them a pat on the back but themselves. And being one's biggest fan also helps in motivating one's self.

[Mira]

I think the timing of this post was impeccable as it just gave me a wave of motivation to continue with the overwhelming task of thesis-writing.

I'm still in college, but preparing for the world out there and getting excited to manage my money well, using many of the tips offered on this blog.

[Terry]

Give me a break. I toil in a downtown convenience store where 80% of the people who come in are great (I love them) and 20% are dregs of humanity. Gangbangers, shoplifters (some professional), bums (I get panhandlers dump several dollars of small change on the counter and want me to convert it to currency for them), under-the-bridge (literally) dwellers, scavenjgers who collect dirty cans and bottles to collect the deposit) and other assorted lowlifes.

I was made for this job? I wasted several years and tens of thousands of dollars to do this job?????